>I find this surprising, but there's an easy explanation I think. If you look
>only at whites (since blacks are overwhelmingly Protestant), I'm sure
>Catholic incomes would still skew significantly lower than Protestant
>ones -- even if you don't include Latinos!
This is old, but I suspect the rankings haven't changed all that much. Note that there are high-income/high-status Protestant religions, and low-income, low-status ones. Catholics are just above the middle.
Doug
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income status Jewish 36,700 7 Unitarian 34,800 1 Agnostic 33,300 3 Episcopalian 33,000 5 Eastern Orthodox 31,500 6 Congregationalist 30,400 4 Presbyterian 29,000 8 Disciples of Christ 28,800 2 Buddhist 28,500 11 Hindu 27,800 9 Catholic 27,700 13 NRMs 27,500 10 None 27,300 12 Churches of Christ 26,600 18 Lutheran 25,900 14 Christian Science 25,800 21 Protestant 25,700 15 Mormon 25,700 17 Methodist 25,100 16 Muslim 24,700 19 7th-Day Adventist 22,700 28 Assemblies of God 22,200 20 Evangelical 21,900 22 Nazarene 21,600 25 Jehovah's Witness 20,900 30 Christian 20,700 24 Baptist 20,600 26 Pentacostal 19,400 27 Brethren 18,500 23 Holiness 13,700 29
status is a composite of four measures: income, percent with college degree, percent full-time year-round workers, percent homeowners NRMs are New Religious Movements (Scientology, New Age, Ekankar, etc.)
source Barry Kosmin & Seymour Lachman, One Nation
Under God (Crown, 1993), based on the National
Survey of Religious Identification, 1991